# Harish Shetty

> Harish Shetty is a Workato co-founder and strategic advisor whose career connects an earlier generation of enterprise middleware with today's low-code automation. After engineering leadership at TIBCO and two SaaS ventures, he helped start Workato in 2013, led engineering, co-invented patented systems for reusable API recipes and actionable workplace bots, and taught the product in practical public sessions. His unusually durable public footprint on Stack Overflow also shows the working engineer behind the executive title.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at Workato
- **Organizations:** Workato, iProfile, Thinkspeed, TIBCO Software
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication, University of Mysore
- **Known for:** Co-founded Workato in 2013 and led its engineering organization during the company's growth into a global enterprise automation platform., Co-invented patented Workato technology for cloning API recipes, actionable cross-application bots and late binding of bot connections., Built a Stack Overflow record of more than 64,000 reputation points, 786 answers and an estimated 3.7 million people reached.

## Career timeline

- **1988-1992** — Studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at the University of Mysore.
- **1999-2011** — Worked at TIBCO Software, becoming a lead architect and engineering director associated with BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix and tibbr.
- **2011** — Became CTO of Thinkspeed.
- **2012** — Became CTO of iProfile.
- **2013** — Co-founded Workato and led engineering as the company developed its integration and automation platform.
- **2017** — Named as a co-inventor on the granted US patent for application programming interface recipe cloning.
- **2018** — Explained the design of actionable, contextual commands in Workbot as a member of the original product team.
- **2019-2021** — Hosted Workato product sessions on the roadmap, APIs, scheduling, transformations, orchestration and enterprise security.
- **2024** — Moved into the role of Founder and Strategic Advisor at Workato.
- **2025** — A US patent for late connection binding for bots, naming Shetty as an inventor, was granted.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Workato in 2013 and led its engineering organization during the company's growth into a global enterprise automation platform.
- Co-invented patented Workato technology for cloning API recipes, actionable cross-application bots and late binding of bot connections.
- Built a Stack Overflow record of more than 64,000 reputation points, 786 answers and an estimated 3.7 million people reached.
- Helped design the original Workbot approach around contextual commands rather than notification-only chatbots.
- Presented public Workato product sessions covering advanced automation, APIs, orchestration, governance and security.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — US patent 12,197,967 for late connection binding for bots was granted, with Harish Shetty listed among the inventors.
- **2024-05** — Public professional listings show Shetty moving from engineering leadership into a Founder and Strategic Advisor role at Workato.

## Links

- Website: https://www.workato.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hkshetty
- GitHub: https://github.com/kandadaboggu

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Last updated: 2026-09-28